THE FUTURE OF THE JUNKYARDS IS GENTRIFICATION

When the Mets built their new stadium, it ended up directly across the street from the Iron Triangle, a 65 acre tangle of salvage yards and auto shops, where Shea was at the opposite end far to the south. This window repair shop disappeared in 2013 along with dozens of shops in a 23 acre shutdown of the Junkyards, to make way for, back then, a shopping complex and luxury housing that, after being caught selling citizen-owned park land, morphed into affordable housing and an 800 million dollar soccer stadium being built now right on this spot.